im creating a site with dreamweaver studio mx 2004. i want to have a gradient added to the body of the page so i tried in css. i tried it in IE and it worked fine but all other browsers didnt show it. i created the gradient firstly in fireworks and then tried another using photoshop (to try and save it in different formats to see if that worked) the gradient is on a transparent background. here is the code for the css

I think to use transparency (and hence gradients in this way) you must save the image in a GIF file, with transparency turned on. You should be able to do this in photoshop, but I have had better luck with GIFs in Animation Shop (comes with Paint Shop Pro 7).

The GIMP also seems to offer better Web image file support.

Second, I think cross-browser transparency is tricky, and involves a few Kludges.